My Wife Did Not Abort The Pregnancy After Collecting N7,000, Man Begs Court To Dissolve Marriage
A herbal practitioner, Morufu Ajah has told an Igando Customary Court, Lagos, that he gave his wife, Deborah the sum of N7,000 to abort the pregnancy which he said he was not sure that it was for him.
“I gave my wife money to abort her pregnancy because she used to leave home without my consent to unknown destination and come back after 21 days or 30 days. She may even tell me she was going to her parent’s place, after some days, I will call her parent, they will tell me they did not see her.
“So, when she came back home and told me that she was pregnant, I doubted it. I gave her N7,000 to terminate it. She collected the money, lied to me that she had done it but never did it.”
The complainant said that his wife turned his mother into a `punching bag’ that most times, she beat and tore her clothes, saying: “My wife had turned my mother’s clothes to rags as she always tore it into pieces whenever she is beating her.
“She always curse and abuse my mother, calling her a witch and telling people that my mother always fly in the night,’’ he said.
He described his wife as a violent and aggressive woman that she used to hit him first any time they had misunderstanding and that always prompted him to beat her up.
Morufu alleged that his wife was fetish that on three occasions, he came back from work and saw salt sprinkled all over the house., even as he begged the court to dissolve their three years old marriage because he was no longer in love and his mother’s life was in danger.
Deborah, a 30 year old teacher, denied all the allegations, and insisted that the fight in the home was because she refused to terminate the pregnancy, adding: “my husband gave me money to abort my baby, I collected the money but used it for another thing.
“When he later discovered that I did not do the abortion, he started beating me and moved my belonging into the kitchen. He later left the house to unknown destination, it was my neighbours that always contributed money for me to feed till my delivery,’’ Deborah said.
The mother of two said that she never beat her mother-in-law nor tore her clothes.
She pleaded with the court not to grant her husband’s petition because she was still in love with him.
The court President, Adegboyega Omilola, advised the couple to maintain the peace as he adjourned the case to December 7 for judgment. [myad]
Online journalism As Offshoot Of Telecoms Liberalisation, By Benjamin Ezra Dikki
For strategic reasons, the Bureau has considered the press as one of its most critical stakeholders in the implementation of economic reforms and the privatization and commercialization program of the Federal Government. This is why the invitation by your association, Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), underscores the trust of our fruitful cooperation, and brings to the fore, the remarkable achievements recorded through our collaboration over time.
No doubt, the launch of GOCOP could not have come at a better time than now, given that the world over, online publication has become the vogue; and Nigeria cannot afford to be left behind. That is why we commend your bold initiative to inaugurate the Guild which undoubtedly, is made up of reputable media practitioners with several years of experience with the primary objective of ensuring that online publishers in Nigeria uphold the tenets of journalism and to serve as a platform for peer review.
As you are aware, the Bureau is the secretariat and the policy implementation arm of the National Council on Privatization, chaired by His Excellency, the Vice President. In this regard, at the beginning of every year, the Bureau takes its work plan to Council for approval before implementation. It should be noted that in over three decades, reform and privatization have been a key economic policy of successive administrations/regards in Nigeria.
As a result of the reforms, privatisation and commercialization, Nigeria has witnessed tremendous inflow of foreign direct investments in various sectors of the Nigeria economy.
It is worthy to note that the advent of democratic governance since 1999, strong foundation were laid for economic reform and attraction of private capital to the national economy.
The first key foundation was the inauguration of the National Council of Privatization; made up of key ministers and critical private sector players in the economy. The Council began with initiation of reforms in the following key sectors of the economy:
Recall that the improved telephony which the nation is presently enjoying is a result of such reforms in the sector which produced the Telecom Policy and Legal/Regulatory framework which the NCP/BPE championed in 2000. Through the reforms carried out in the telecommunications sector, Nigeria has moved from about 400,000 telephone lines in 2001 to about 134 million lines in 2015; and the teledensity has increased from estimated 2.5% to 95 percent in a space of 12 years.
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, it is gratifying to note that the inauguration of GOCOP today is another eloquent testimony of the successful reform of the telecommunication sector. And the same multiplier effect is expected when the reforms in other sectors of the economy by the federal government are completed.
Once again, on behalf management and staff of the BPE, I congratulate this Guild on this milestone.
* Being the goodwill message of the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Benjamin E. Dikki, at the formal launch of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers on October 22, 2015 in Lagos. [MYAD]